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1256, Bartholomew’s older brother Richard
summoned to become a knight.

8/19/1274,
Edward I succeeded Henry III as King of England.

4/23/1307, Bartholomew de Grenvyle and Anne his wife; and William Giffard,
concerning the manor of Compton Greynvyll and the chapel of the same manor,
settled on Bartholomew and Anne and the heirs of Bartholomew. (S) BCM/A/220i.

2/25/1308,
Edward II succeeded Edward I as King of England.

1310, Bartholomew succeeded his brother
Richard as lord of Bideham and Kilkhampton.

1312, To Bartholomew and his wife Amy, bishop
Stapeldon granted a license for the celebration of divine service in capelld
sud de Bydyford.

1314, A fine levied between Bartholomew
de Greynfield and Richard de Greynfield, parson of the church of Kilkhampton,
of one messuage, …, in Kilkhampton near Pogewell.

1317, A fine levied at Westminster: Sir
Bartholomew Grenvile and his wife Amy plaintiffs, Margery, late the wife of
John Dynham, deforciant; manor of Kildhampton to the use of the said
Bartholomew and Amy his wife, for life, excepting one messuage, 4 carucates of
land, 16 acres of meadow, 27 acres of wood, and £60 12s 3d in the same manor;
remainder to Henry, son of the said Bartholomew, and to the heirs of his body. …
Should Henry die without heir of his body then the manor, as is aforesaid,
shall revert in their entirety toJoan and Isabella sisters of the said Henry. … For this
Bartholomew and Amy gave to Margaret 100 marks of silver. (S) Feet of Fines for
Cornwall.

1318, Bartholomew presented a priests to
the parish at Bideford.

9/18/1318, Bartholomew presented Henry of
Cornwall to the rectory of Alverdiscot church.

10/6/1318, William Hurward; and Bartholomew de Grenevill and Anne his wife,
concerning the manor of Compton Grenevill and the advowson of the chapel of the
same manor. Bartholomew and Anne have acknowledged the advowson and one-third
and two-thirds of two-thirds of the manor to be the right of William, and they
grant the reversion of one-third of two-thirds of the manor, held by Richard de
Thoverton and Katherine his wife in dower, to William, for 100 marks.

1320, Bartholomew granted the Rectory at
Kilhampton to his younger son Richard, together with the estate of Hewode.

1323-4, Sir Bartholomew de Greynvile, Lord of Bideford, returned into
chancery, as "one of the knights of Devonshire bearing ancient arms from
their ancestors," certified to be "of great and almost decrepid
age."

By 12/25/1324, Bartholomew died. [Walter
Prodhome admitted to the Rectory of Alverdiscot Church, on the presentation of Henry, son and heir of Bartholomew de
Grenville.]

1325, dated at ‘Bydeford, Tuesday after
St. Ambrose’s Day’. Widow Amy sold 3 acres of land that had been given to her
by her husband. [To which is a seal appendant of the arms of Granville impaling
the arms of Vyvyan, viz., six mullets, 3, 2, 1, circumscribed.]

2/1/1327,
Edward III succeeded Edward II as King of England.

1327, Amy’s son and heir Henry died.

1327, A precept from the king to his
escheator in Cornwall directing him to deliver lands, woods, and rents, on the
manor of Kilkhampton, with their appurtenances to Ann who was the wife of
Bartholomew de Greynville; the manor aforesaid was holden of the Earl of
Gloucester as of his honor of Wynkeleigh, being in the hands of the king by
forfeiture of Hugh le Despencer, junior, holden by the service of one knight's
fee. … further directs that sufficient security be taken of the aforesaid Ann
to pay £20 annually for the same during the minority of the heir. [The heir
being her grandson Theobald, son of Henry.]

By 1329, Amy died.

1329, IPM at Kilkhampton of son Henry:
Dame Amy Grenvile held the manors of Kilkhampton and Bideford for life of the
Earl of Gloucester, as of the honour of Winkleigh [chief seat of the honour of
Gloucester in Devon], forfeited to the King by Hugh le Despencer the younger.